Press Releases

Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) has announced a suite of Broadbandtoolkit.com geospatial planning tools for FBA members to visualise existing broadband deployments and areas of opportunity. Members now have the capability to access several tools through FBA’s Research and Resources library. (more…)

August 23, 2023

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Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc, has announced demand from multiple Tier-1 service providers and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) supported by requests for engineering samples of Edgewater’s MLX 488 Wi-Fi 7 Spectrum Slicing platform. Edgewater is currently undertaking focused engineering efforts and is targeting delivery in Q2 2024. (more…)

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Plume has announced an important home security enhancement to its recently launched full stack optimisation offering. This enables measurement and prioritisation of traffic down to the application category level. Through the addition of a fourth application category ‘home security’ building on streaming, gaming, and video conferencing, Plume is now able to optimise home Wi-Fi traffic and performance for applications connected to devices such as cameras and video doorbells. (more…)

August 22, 2023

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Comcast has introduced a new product, Storm-Ready WiFi, aimed at providing consistent connectivity during storms, local outages, or when trees are down. With increasing severe weather incidents across the country backup connectivity has become crucial. Storm-Ready WiFi features cellular backup and a four-hour rechargeable battery, ensuring operational capability during the average two-hour US power outage. This solution offers customers reassurance about maintaining home connectivity, switching to cellular backup during power disruptions to enable Internet usage
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The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) published Vertical Standards Landscape reference paper. The paper provides guidance on which standards are most relevant to industrial IoT (internet of things) adopters from certain vertical industries. (more…)

August 21, 2023

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SaskTel announced that it has begun rolling out its 5G network in the cities of Warman and Martensville. Delivering hyper-fast data speeds, SaskTel’s 5G network is bringing a new level of connectivity to residents and businesses across Saskatchewan. Available in parts of Warman and Martensville, SaskTel anticipates majority of both communities will have 5G coverage soon. (more…)

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Fastly, Inc has announced two developments in its domain name API (application programming interface) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) capabilities. The acquisition of Domainr, an ICANN-accredited real-time domain availability API provider, as well as general availability of Certainly, Fastly’s TLS Certification Authority (CA). These developments advance Fastly’s edge cloud platform as well as its mission to foster a global web infrastructure that is more accessible and secure. (more…)

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Rural broadband providers broke ground on a series of multi million dollar projects that will deliver fibre broadband technology to rural communities across Eastern North Dakota. A ceremony near Casselton was hosted by Halstad Telephone Company, MLGC, Polar Communications, Red River Communications, and BEK Communications Cooperative. (more…)

August 18, 2023

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Cityroam brings Passpoint / OpenRoaming adoption in Japan and currently interconnected with some other roaming federations including eduroam and WBA OpenRoaming. IKEUCHI GATE, located in Sapporo, Japan, is a smart building completed in October 2022 by IKEUCHI GROUP. (more…)

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